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title: Hybrid measures
description: "I guess this could mean all sorts of things but the only way I encounter it is for measures like PSYCHLOPS which combine a nomothetic rating, in PSYCHLOPS it is \"How have you felt in yourself this last week?\" and…"
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updated: "2024-02-24"
category: All OM book glossary entries
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# Hybrid measures

I guess this could mean all sorts of things but the only way I encounter it is for measures like PSYCHLOPS which combine a nomothetic rating, in PSYCHLOPS it is "How have you felt in yourself this last week?" and PSYCHLOPS combines this with three client/user generated idiographic ratings which have a stem, e.g. "Choose the problem that troubles you most" to which the participant fills in a problem of their chosing, in their own words, and then rates it on "How much has it affected you over the last week?"

#### Details

Pretty much the only measure I come across under the term "hybrid measure" is PSYCHLOPS but SCORE measures are also hybrid measures. The SCORE-15 starts with 15 nomothetic questions about the participant's family, such as:
"People in my family interfere too much in each other’s lives"
However, it also has a client generated item:
"What is the problem/challenge that brought you to therapy?
The main problem is ..."
which is rated on:
"How severe is it? Please mark your answer on the line below:"

I don't recall seeing much analysis of that item in papers about or using SCORE, I'd love to hear of work that does focus on this.

#### Try also

[Idiographic measures & idiographic methods](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/idiographic-measure-idiographic-methods/)
[Idiographic vs. nomothetic: history](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/idiographic-vs-nomothetic-history/)
[Nomothetic measures & nomothetic data](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/nomothetic-measures-nomothetic-data/)
[PSYCHLOPS](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/psychlops-psychological-outcome-profiles/)
[SCORE-15 (Systemic CORE)](https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/glossary2/score-15-systemic-core/)

#### Chapters

Mentioned in Chapter 4.

#### Online resources

None currently.

#### Dates

First created 24.ii.24.